koji weirdness

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:03:20 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Monday 28 May 2007 09:22:55 Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Ah thats new (and a regression compared to plague), who / what starts this
> >> task and when / how often?
> > 
> > The only 'regression' is that it is slightly slower than plague.  With Plague 
> > you had to wait for a repo recreation as well, it just was a bit faster.  
> 
> Ah I see, well with plague it was so fast I never hit the problem :)

That is because plague only ran createrepo for the small and single
needsign repo, whereas kojira builds a complete set of arch-specific
repositores from scratch (using hardlinks) and then runs createrepo for
each of them.
 
> > With Koji, there are far more packages involved and it takes longer.  But 
> > that's why there are things like chain-build so that it manages the wait for 
> > the package to show up in the repo for you.
> > 
> 
> And how do I do a chain build?

koji chain-build --help